Watershed Analysis Faculty and Staff
The Center works with many talented faculty and associates both on and off campus to provide quality water research. Below are the faculty associates at Tennessee Tech with whom the Center works to explore the field of watershed analysis. To learn more about each faculty member, follow the links from their names to their department or professional Web pages.
Yvette Clark, Research and Development Engineer
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(931) 372-3004
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 229
Steven Cook, Professor and Interim Chair
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(931) 372-3194
Pennebaker (PENN) 207A
Expertise in ecology of freshwater invertebrates; fish parasitology; feeding ecology and bioenergetics of freshwater fishes; biotic indices
Tania Datta, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-3446
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 333
Dr. Datta is a newly appointed faculty member in the Center for Management, Utilization & Protection of Water Resources and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include:
- Wastewater Treatment Design
- Environmental Microbiology
- Bioenergy Production
- Resource Recovery from Wastewater
- Role of Microbes in Natural Aquatic Ecosystem
- Low-Cost Technologies for Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Dennis George, P.E., Director of the Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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(931) 372-3609
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 233
Expertise in natural and engineered systems for control of contaminants in the environment
Faisal Hossain, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3257
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 332
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Resume/CV
Sustainability of large scale water resources infrastructure; Human impact on local climate; Land surface hydrology; Hydroclimatic extremes; Space-borne hydrologic remote sensing; Transboundary water resources management; Engineering education; Multi-media film-making for engineering documentaries.
Alfred Kalyanapu, Assistant Professor
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(931) 372-3561
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 334 Webpage
Resume/CV
I am interested in understanding the complex interactions of water with urban areas including energy, climate, infrastructure and sustainability.
Research Topics:
- Climate Impacts
- Computational Hydraulics & Hydrology
- Hydraulic/Hydrologic Modeling
- Urban Water Management
- Regional Scale Flood Modeling & Simulation
- GIS Applications in Water Resources Engineering
Peter Li, Professor of Geography
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(931) 372-3752
Kittrell Hall (KITT) 207 Webpage
Expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology; environmental monitoring; renewable resources, water quality, dam risk assessment
Thomas Roberts, Professor
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(931) 372-3138
Pennebaker (PENN) 309
Expertise in animal ecology; wetland ecology; habitat evaluation and management
Gordon Stearman, Professor
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(931) 372-3528
Prescott Hall (PRSC) 340
Expertise in organic farm compost and irrigation treatments in vegetable plots; developing innovative extraction and analytical methods; studying fate and transport of anthropogenic chemicals in soil; developing constructed wetland systems for cleanup of water runoff in nurseries; developing best management systems for control of urban nonpoint source pollutants.
